Dr C. Gabrielle
Salfati is a Lecturer in the Centre for Investigative Psychology in
the Department of Psychology at the University of Liverpool and the
Course Director for the M.Sc. in Forensic Behavioral Science.
Her main areas of expertise are homicide and sexual offences, in particular
with reference to offender profiling, classifications of violent crime
and cross-cultural comparisons.

She is currently working on a number of interrelated projects dealing
with various facets of violent crime and deviance. The main focus of
this work centres on homicide, sexual violence, and other aggressive
interpersonal crimes. In particular, this work is now being developed
within an international framework through collaboration with major research
centres across Europe as well as North America.

Research in the area of homicide
focuses primarily on the issue of classification of homicide based on
the actions the offender engages in at the crime scene, the characteristics
of victims, and the characteristics of offenders. This work relates
to parallel projects looking at the issues of the development and the
consistency of violent behaviour across an offender's criminal career
and other aspects of their non-criminal lives. This work also explores
the narratives of offenders who have committed homicide. The main objective
of this research is to establish a sound methodological and scientific
basis for police decision making tools such as Offender Profiling.

On-going related research in
the area of sexual violence involves studies dealing with sexual crimes
such as sexual homicide and sexual assaults, comparing them on underlying
motivational, and behavioural trends. The focus is on identifying the
differences and similarities of various subgroups of sexual offenders,
such as adult offenders, young offenders, and offenders with learning
disabilities or mental disorders.

Dr Salfati has presented and
published widely both nationally and internationally on her work, and
guest edited a special journal issue on Homicide Research in Europe
(see

www.sagepub.co.uk
for further details) for the journal Homicide Studies. She is on the
Board of Editors of a number of academic journals, is a chartered psychologist
with the British Psychological Society, a member of the American Society
of Criminology, and a member of the European Society of Criminology.
She is also actively involved with the US-based Homicide Research Working
Group (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/HRWG/),
and is one of the Board Members of the European Homicide Research Group.